Calif. Woman, 62, Gives Birth To Baby Boy

[The Straight Story]

Calif. Woman, 62, Gives Birth To Baby Boy

POSTED: 10:01 am EST February 19, 2006

REDDING, Calif. -- A 62-year-old woman gave birth Friday to a healthy 6-pound, 9-ounce baby boy, becoming one of the oldest women in the world to successfully bear a child.

Janise Wulf gave birth to her 12th child. She is also a grandmother of 20 and a great-grandmother of three.

Family members said the delivery went smoothly, despite earlier concerns about the mother's health. Wulf, a diabetic, experienced swelling and higher blood pressure earlier this week, prompting doctors to perform the Caesarean section a week early.

Wulf and her third husband, Scott, 48, named the red-haired boy Adam Charles Wulf. He follows just 3 1/2 years behind his older brother, Ian.

http://www.local6.com/news/7220943/detail.html

[SoCalDem]

1. Good grief..

That's ridiculous.. I guess the other kids can raise him..

[izzie]

11. I am with you on this one.

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[seabeyond]

14. or it is none of our business and no way we can decide the right

or wrong of this action and allow that we are all uniquely different. or i guess we can pass a law against it, cause some decide it is wrong

[linazelle]

17. You are right seabeyond...it's her business alone, a pro-choice issue

if ever there was one.

And, IMHO, if God didn't want women to bear children at 62, then it couldn't have happened.

[shanti]

27. don't we have a right to our own opinion?

:shrug: i mean, this is a message board.

[seabeyond]

28. you gave yours and i gave mine

i didnt say be quiet. i said you dont know shit about circumstance, and the right or wrong of the decision.

[shanti]

30. right

and neither do you, so why get ugly about it? jesus christ...

[seabeyond]

33. i think the whole point is admitting i dont know shit. you can preceive

me as being nasty, though i guess we could say judging this woman and the situation is the nasty part. i just called the nasty

[Sequoia]

48. Really! Remember "Sarah"

She had a baby and she was older and started a whole new country of people as numerous as the sand. These days 62 isn't as old as it used to be.

[Nikia]

20. Well, the father is 48

Would you be so upset if the ages were reversed? Sometimes people that age would naturually become parents if the ages were reversed.
Sometimes grandparents that age end up raising their grandchildren also.

[uppityperson]

2. Good thing she didn't give birth to a 3 yr old boy. I hate redundancy

I do hate redundancy. Why repeat yourself? She gave birth to a baby. Or a boy. Why a baby boy? Do they have to make sure we know it was a baby and not a teenager boy? I'd hate to give birth to a teenager boy, or even a 3 yr old boy. Boy, that would be difficult. Although, at 62, it might have been good to give birth to a teenager boy. I wonder if she'll breast feed the baby boy with her own mammary produced breast milk. Hmm, all I need to do is wait another 11 yrs, get pregant and I can give birth to a baby baby.

[Poppyseedman]

3. She is also blind since birth !!!!!!!!!

http://www.breakingnews.ie/2006/02/18/story245245.html

Pretty amazing.

[Blue_In_AK]

4. And I thought I had it bad not getting my youngest out of the house

until I was 57! I'm sorry, but this is just ridiculous.

[cornermouse]

5. I would consider that grounds for justifiable homicide.

[lies and propaganda]

6. god bless america

this is really unsettling to me. Will that kid have future health problems because mom cant be at her peak health.
and 12 kids? better give me a damn break.

[tinfoilinfor2005]

7. So her great grandchildren just had a newborn great geat uncle?

Or just one great? I can never figure those things out.

[FreedomAngel82]

47. That's kinda funny

It's like that song "I'm my own grandpa."

[RebelOne]

8. Congratulations to this lady.

There is no way I would want to have a baby in my 60s and I am in my 60s. I would not want to take on changing dirty diapers, baby formula, staying up all night with a crying baby, etc. So all the more power to her.

[C_eh_N_eh_D_eh]

9. Why always the hating?

Yes, as liberals, we must fight against those who would force women to serve as breed-o-matics. And I have no problem with that. But if a woman honestly wants to have lots of children, who are we to tell her she's wrong? Who's she hurting? The kid's got an army of siblings, nieces, and nephews, all of whom understand how large families work; he won't want for parental figures after mommy's gone.

I realize that the choices this woman has made in her life are very different from what most DUers would do in her place. But that doesn't mean they're the *wrong* choices, not for her anyway. Lashing out in confusion is a natural reaction, but liberals are supposed to be better than that.

[The Straight Story]

10. I ain't hating it

I just think it is bizzare :)

[acmavm]

12. Who's hating? Don't over-react. But you Mom being 78 when you're

finally old enough for the driver's exam. Well...

[1620rock]

13. This is her 12th child...

...not hating this, but for God's sake aren't 11 children from this one woman baby factory enough for this overpopulated earth? :eyes:

[shanti]

29. thank you

that's the point the "haters" are trying to make. :eyes:

[acmavm]

31. Of course 11 children are enough. Way past enough if a little common

sense were applied. And her age. That makes this just dumb. But what I said was no one was HATING anyone here. The poster that I was responding to was making it seem like people here wanted her burnt at the stake and that is not at all anything close to the truth. But by God, I sure hope she puts the old reproductive equipment into retirement and finds a sibling ready, willing, and able to raise the kid if anything should happen to her. She is not a spring chicken any longer regardless, and this is a tough and cruel old world out there.

[Crazy Guggenheim]

16. Children should not be surrogate parents.

[Crazy Guggenheim]

15. One thing they don't mention in these articles that the eggs were donor

eggs and not her own.

[seabeyond]

18. so????? that was assumed on my part. again, so????? n/t

[Crazy Guggenheim]

19. I was just saying that for people who didn't know that. I don't want

anyone to have some sort of false hope about childbirth. Besides I was addressing the OP.

[seabeyond]

22. lol i hear ya. being woman, i kinda knew that. thanks n/t

[Tulum_Moon]

24. That is what I want to know

As a woman I want to know if it was her egg. And was it frozen long ago. I can be critical of her right now, but then again men have kids way into their 70s and beyond all the time. My Father was 60 and my mother 34. Well she really was not 34 but that is what my birth cert. says.:shrug:

[JI7]

38. i wonder why she didn't adopt instead

[mtnsnake]

21. That's nothing. I know an 80-yr old woman who gave birth to a chimpanzee

back in 1946. Her name is Barbara and it wasn't any C-section. She delivered it outta her butt!

[Crazy Guggenheim]

23. LOL!

:popcorn: :rofl: :spray: :woohoo: :applause: :kick:

[karlrschneider]

25. There was an old woman who lived in a shoe,

she had so many children she didn't know what to do. Apparently.

[shanti]

26. that is just irresponsible

just my opinion, NO ONE needs to be having 12 kids in this day and age. WHY?????

[Nikki Stone 1]

32. A donor egg? A 48 year old husband? 12 kids?

You know, it really is up to her.

I personally would never have a kid at that age, though the younger man works. :) The only way I could see going through a pregnancy that late in life is if I were carrying a child for a daughter who couldn't.

However, as long as the woman is in good health and she's willing to not get any sleep for the next few years, it's her choice.

[Baconfoot]

43. Yeah but it's ok to criticize

There is and should be a thick line between advocating criminalization and merely offering criticism. If people criticize the woman for taking too great a risk of having a child with a life-altering genetic abnormality the response should be to what's actually said. e.g. one could say that children with birth defects are just as precious and, moreover, desirable as those without. But it's nonresponsive to say "well it's up to her." Yeah it's up to her, the critics want to say, and she SHOULD have taken certain facts further into consideration than she actually did.

[DetroitProle]

34. the risk of birth defects

at that age is phenominally high. It's like playing Russian roulette.
Approving of this is like approving of smoking or drinking during pregnancy. It's a huge risk that needn't be taken.

[Crazy Guggenheim]

35. Welcome to DU.

:popcorn:

[BlueIris]

39. Welcome, indeed.

I'd post more, but...it wouldn't be worth the effort.

[DetroitProle]

45. how warm and fuzzy

Don't you just hate it when people disagree with you??? WHY ARE THEY ALL SO STUPID?!

[Maddy McCall]

42. With a donor egg from a much younger woman?

I thought the genetic problems would be due to the age of the person from whom the egg originated, not the age of the uterus into which it was placed.

I disagree with you. It's NOT the same as smoking/drinking during pregnancy. Quite different.

[DetroitProle]

44. yeah,

I'm not sure what is the deciding factor. The source of the donor egg seems to make the most sense. If there weren't a high risk of birth defects, I certainly would have no problem with it.

[rumpel]

36. I would not have the stamina at 65 to run after a three year old

this lady has guts

[AnnieBW]

37. 12???

What's that old lady doing using up all of the pg karma??? Hasn't she reproduced enough?

[Nutmegger]

40. Wow

I wish her nothing but luck in the future!

[AspenRose]

41. Wow. And I was worried I was too old, at 37.

Just, wow.

TWELVE children?! :wow: I need to talk to this lady about how she recovered from all those pregnancies!

My son is a year old and I'm STILL recovering (in a lot of ways).

[FreedomAngel82]

46. Wow

And their age difference is amazing too.